It's not cricket as loveFOOD hosts its own Ashes (taste) test match.
The 2015 Ashes series starts today, and as English cricket fans hope for a performance that will take the title back from Australia, we thought it would be a good idea to stage a test match of our own in the loveFOOD kitchen.
Having no wicket and loathe to hurl balls around near the oven, we instead welcomed to the crease two stalwarts of English and Australian cuisine – the opinion-dividing yeast extracts that are Marmite and Vegemite respectively.
Which one triumphed, or were our tasters stumped trying to tell the difference?
The results
Marmite, founded in 1902, is well over 100 years old, while Vegemite came two decades later in 1922. We spread both on toast, cut them into soldiers, and ushered in our tasters to a blind test.
As it happens, age beat (relative) youth, with Marmite bowling out Vegemite with 10 votes to a paltry three.
Perhaps the lack of Australians in our office didn’t help Vegemite's chances, but that’s still a convincing score there for the English. Many people commented that Vegemite had a distinctly sour and unpleasant taste.
In fact, five of our tasters took one bite of their Vegemite toast before asking where the bin was.
Take that, Australia. That’s what we think of your yeast spread.
Do you have a preference between Vegemite and Marmite? Or are they both as unwelcome as rain at the Oval?
Let us know your thoughts in the Comments below.
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